It is never correct to hijack the thread of another poster to raise an issue of your own.
Seeing your issue, I think it's better to start a new thread.

Thank you, Béèm. I have wondered for some time if I was repeatedly committing a faux pas on this forum. I thought I was on topic and the OP posted only once and that was 4 days ago so posted here. I need to work on my forum etiquette. Please believe me when I tell you I appreciate your heads up. I don't mean to offend.

Thanks again.

It is not always easy to distinguish if an own issue is the same as the OP's one.

But mostly the hardware and software can be quite different, so advise for one won't always work for the other.

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It is never correct to hijack the thread of another poster to raise an issue of your own.
Seeing your issue, I think it's better to start a new thread.

Thank you, Béèm. I have wondered for some time if I was repeatedly committing a faux pas on this forum. I thought I was on topic and the OP posted only once and that was 4 days ago so posted here. I need to work on my forum etiquette. Please believe me when I tell you I appreciate your heads up. I don't mean to offend.

Thanks again.

It is not always easy to distinguish if an own issue is the same as the OP's one.

But mostly the hardware and software can be quite different, so advise for one won't always work for the other.

Don't consider it as a faux pas (French is spoken in Kentucky?)

However, the next step for the user is to establish a _stable_ Puppy system... So, the software discussion is not completely out-to-lunch..._________________Add swapfileWellMinded Search

[quote="RetroTechGuy]However, the next step for the user is to establish a _stable_ Puppy system... So, the software discussion is not completely out-to-lunch...[/quote]I don't agree.
The discussion of the OP was requirements to run Puppy.

f someone comes in about his problems of his running installation, this has nothing to do with the initial thread._________________Time savers:
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But mostly the hardware and software can be quite different, so advise for one won't always work for the other.

Don't consider it as a faux pas (French is spoken in Kentucky?)

The OP never got a firm answer on his question. I've run 421-retro on 366mhz, 160mb ram in less than 500mb on the hard drive for almost a year. I think it runs plenty quick. I posted here because yesterday I installed two Puppys, I thought were designed to run on old machines, on a 800mhz, 160 ram computer and neither ran acceptably, not nearly as fast as 421 on the lesser machine.

I don't know a lot of things. I don't know whether my problem is user error, hardware, software or combination of those. I don't know what the minimum requirements are for any Puppy version. I do know the answer I would have given a couple of days ago is not what I would say today. Today I don't know much of anything. I do know how a newbie feels.

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I posted here because yesterday I installed two Puppys, I thought were designed to run on old machines, on a 800mhz, 160 ram computer and neither ran acceptably, not nearly as fast as 421 on the lesser machine.

If it's something like .tgz then it's not a puppy package, so it is not automatically placed where puppy will need it. With a .tgz file, you first expand it to its uncompressed form, then move it yourself to the directory where the browser expects to find it.

Thanks again...
An hour at youtube started with serious lag on video and audio...
But for some reason smoothed out on audio completely after not too long... but with the video still goin fits and stops...
Before i got a recent gum up I caused with firefox fixed... It ran pretty smoothe...
but realistically... i'm short on ram... 256... older vaio...
no complaint here.. just an observ...
Bless us all....
and what the heck is Russia doing moving the magnetic north line???